Changes making it easier for sex assault victims to access their own files pass House of Representatives

Victims of sexual assault in Parliament House will now be able to access case files handed to an internal inquiry, after the government agreed to amend a new law.

Last week in the Senate the government passed exemptions to the Archives and Other Legislation Amendment Bill.

Those exemptions would have stopped anything handed from ministers’ offices and departments to an inquiry on sexual assault and harassment from being made…